Imagery Flashcards
The picture superiority effect
Generative adversial networks (GANs)
They make it possible for computers to create realistic images. Works by putting 2 artificial neural nets (ANNs) in competition with each other
Concreteness effect
Memory is better for concrete words than abstract words
Imagery rescripting
Technique used to treat anxiety and depression in which patients are guided through memories of past negative or traumatic experiences and instructed to imagine their younger selves acting in a way they wish they could have during the event
Paper folding test
Participant is asked to mentally fold a piece of paper with a hole in it to determine where the holes would be located in the unfolded paper
Dual coding theory
Thoughts can be represented either through a verbal, abstract code, or a nonverbal, analog code.
Analog= symbols that represent the item they are trying to represent
Examples that support depictive representation
Mental scanning: longer to travel longer distances
Aphantasia
Inability to form mental images
Hyperphantasia
Condition of forming extremely vivid mental images
Tests of mental imagery
-Vividness of visual imagery questionnaire (VVIQ)
-Paper folding test
-spatial ability
-Object imagery
The imagery debate: kosslyn vs pylyshyn
Kosslyn: imagery is an analog form of representation (preserves the features of what is represented)
Pylyshyn: imagery is a by-product of a symbolic code. Proposition between knowledge and representation
Evidence against imagery debate
-participants do not remember all components of memorized images
-brain damage can lead to perceptual deficits without imagery deficits
